Mell vs Mewl - What's the difference?
mell | mewl |
(archaic) To deal, concern oneself; to interfere or meddle.
*c. 1495 , (John Skelton), "Vppon a deedman's hed":
*:For wher so we dwell / Deth wyll us qwell / And with us mell .
* 1819 , , Ivanhoe , ch. 32,
(obsolete) honey
* Warner
To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine.
* 1599 , , As You Like It
* 1844 , , Martin Chuzzlewit
* 2007 , Kiesa Kay, Mimosa May, Tornado Alley ,
A soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling .
* 1995 , , Natália Costa, Ronald W. Sousa (translators), The Murmuring Coast ,
* 2009 , Mickey Erlach, Cruising for Bad Boys ,
* 2010 , Chris Wooding, Malice ,
As an adjective mell
is soft.As a verb mewl is
to cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine.As a noun mewl is
a soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling .mell
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) melen, .Alternative forms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) mellen, from (etyl) meller, , (l).Verb
(en verb)- “By Saint Thomas of Kent,” said he, “an I buckle to my gear, I will teach thee, sir lazy lover, to mell with thine own matters, maugre thine iron case there!”
Etymology 3
See mellifluous.Noun
(-)- Ev'n such as neither wanton seeme, nor waiward, mell , nor gall.
mewl
English
Verb
- And one man in his time plays many parts, / His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, / Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms; / Then the whining school-boy, ...
- You're a pretty clog to be tied to a man for life, you mewling , white-faced cat!
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- My father started rubbing and rubbing on Mittens, scruffying her fur the wrong way, and she mewled her protests.
Noun
(en noun)page 89,
- There would have been total silence if it hadn't been for the sea nearby, mewling. Indeed, that same mewl added to the sleepy image that filled the dormant house.
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- I let out another moaning mewl , biting my lip as I awaited whatever he planned.
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- The scratching stopped, and there was another piteous mewl from behind the door.